Colleen Chien

Founder and Director

Colleen V. Chien is the William G. Simon Professor of Law at Berkeley Law School and co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology and Faculty Advisor to the EPIC Data Lab, Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice, Criminal Law & Justice Center and co-founder and organizer of the Berkeley AI and Society Initiative. She teaches, researches, and mentors in the realms of artificial intelligence, patents, and the criminal justice system.

Navid Shaghaghi

Web Tools Manager

Navid Shaghaghi is a faculty member of the department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSEN) of the School of Engineering (SoE), and the department of Information Systems and Analytics (ISA) of the School of Business at Santa Clara University (SCU).

William Sundstrom

Advisor

Dr. William Sundstrom is the Stephen and Patricia Schott Professor of Economics at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. His research interests include poverty and inequality, the economic history of labor markets, education and related institutions, and the economics of race and gender.

Robert Apel

Advisor

Dr. Robert Apel is a criminologist and Professor at Rutgers University-Newark whose research focuses on the intersection of crime, the justice system, and the labor market.

Damon Jones

Advisor

Damon Jones is an associate professor and associate director of the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.

Conrad Miller

Advisor

Conrad Miller is an Associate Professor and Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow at Berkeley Haas and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Jake Rhodes

Deputy Public Defender of Santa Clara County

Jake is a Deputy Public Defender in Santa Clara County who coordinates, leads, and advances implementation of Paper Prisons’ Digital Juneteenth Initiative.

Danielle Caballero

Intern at Santa Clara PDO

Danielle is a first-generation Latina and Santa Clara PDO intern interested in criminal defense and immigration law. She supports implementation of the Paper Prisons’ Juneteenth Initiative.

Sanchi Bansal

Transactional Lawyer

Contracts & Privacy

Sanchi is a transactional lawyer with experience in contracts, data privacy and AI governance. She supports the team with onboarding, the directory and guide, and contracts and data-use agreements.

DaiGianna Williams

Predoctoral Research Professional

University of Chicago

DaiGianna is a predoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago whose work connects economics and anthropology with interests in development, behavior and gender. She acts as student project lead for Paper Prisons’ Digital Juneteenth Initiative.

Lyric Chyanne Bogard

Neuroscience

UC Berkeley

Lyric is a Berkeley neuroscience senior interested in mental health and criminal justice policy. She supports services mapping, pathfinding and outreach.

Anika Yu

Political Economy and Data Science

UC Berkeley

Anika studies Political Economy and Data Science at Berkeley. She works on court-record collection and expungement data, with an interest in post-conviction and reentry relief.

Ibrahim Wone

Cognitive Science

UC Berkeley

Ibrahim Wone is an undergraduate at UC Berkeley studying Cognitive Science. He works on the sports-partnerships and statewide-expansion side of the Juneteenth Expungement Project, exploring how sports organizations can help connect people to record-clearance resources.

Nicole Kadi

Legal Studies and Public Policy

UC Berkeley

Nicole studies Legal Studies and Public Policy at Berkeley. She supports survey design and research materials.

Hannah Mukhtar

Business Administration

UC Berkeley

Hannah studies Business Administration at Berkeley and explores technology, law and access to justice. She supports AI partnerships, Racial Justice Act tools, outreach, survey research and Tech-Bono.

Connor van Herick

Technical Advisor

Connor is a Berkeley senior studying Computer Science and Data Science. He supports outreach infrastructure, data collection and ingestion, and AI workflows.

Atylla Girão

Web Developer & Research Collaborator

Atylla is a Software Engineering student at the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil. His research interests span machine learning, AI safety, and AI governance, with a broader interest in the intersection of technology and law.